Telangana Elections

Telangana will see its first independent assembly elections whaen the state voters to elect a new government in a single-phase poll at 119 assembly constituencies on December 7, 2018. Elections in the state were due in 2019 but the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi under Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao or KCR dissolved the Assembly on September 6, paving way for early elections. Major parties challenging the TRS are the Telugu Desam Party, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress, the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Telangana Jana Samithi, and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen. The result will be declared on December 11, 2018.

Organisational weaknesses, the tie-up with the TDP not working on the ground and some shortcomings of the state party leadership could be the reasons for poor performance of the Congress in the Telangana Assembly poll, party

Telangana Rasthra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has handed down Congress-TDP combine a humiliating defeat in assembly elections, is expected to take oath as Chief Minister on Thursday between 1.24 pm and 3.04 pm,

Two heavyweight politicians from Telangana ended up at the hospital after being defeated in the Assembly election results declared yesterday.

The Tuesday results of five Vidhan Sabha elections saw Congress take over three BJP-ruled states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, where they are set to form the government in the coming days.

A day after the BJP received a poll drubbing in three Hindi heartland states, the Shiv Sena Wednesday said the election results indicate people's desire to have a "BJP-free" establishment.

While the seesaw battle between the Congress and the BJP in MP had all makings of a potboiler, the excruciating wait of hours before getting the final tally left many wondering about the cause behind the delay.

The Assembly poll results in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh mark the "beginning of a change", NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Wednesday, dubbing the outcome as "rejection" of the BJP-led government's policies.

The representation of women in the 119-member Telangana Assembly has dropped to 5 per cent against the 7.5 per cent in the dissolved House.

The results in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan came as a major shock for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has won all the major states barring Delhi, Bihar, Punjab and Karnataka

Asaduddin Owaisi has today hailed Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao's coming back to power in the state.

From living a life of near anonymity as a Congress foot soldier to becoming the mascot of Telangana pride who brought down the then mighty Congress to its knees and wrested statehood, K Chandrasekhar Rao has navigated the cho